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Brian Magi
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Geography and Earth Sciences
UNC Charlotte
McEniry 331
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001Meta
Tag Archives: coal
Voting for action on global environmental change
As real as global warming (figure above from NOAA NCDC) is, and as much as we expect that the science has done enough, one US lawmaker recently said I am for global action on climate change. I am a proud … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon, climate, coal, global environmental change, global warming, teaching
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Charlotte Citizens Hearing on EPA Proposal to Regulate Carbon Emissions
Real conversations about how we can act on climate change (#ActOnClimate) seem to be happening right now. Environment North Carolina published their tabulated emissions from state power plants, and even highlighted North Carolina’s role in this.To offer public support for … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon, Charlotte, coal, EPA, north carolina, USA
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Life expectancy reductions in the polluted air of China
Shockingly little has been published in the peer-reviewed literature about the air pollution in China, although there has been plenty of press coverage. I talked a little bit about the US Embassy twitter data and how fires polluted the air … Continue reading
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Tagged air quality, china, coal
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Land use in action
Externalities are the costs that are not incurred by coal mining operations, hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and oil sands extraction. Aside from the fossil fuel emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and natural gas for power generation, the extraction process … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon, coal, data visualization, global warming, land use
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Policy leadership on issues related to global warming
President Obama continues to steam ahead in the beginning of his 2nd term. His State of the Union speech was really well-done, and followed on the tone he set in his Inaugural Address. Not all of the speech was about … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon, climate impacts, coal, global warming, natural gas, technology
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Where the US coal is going
Many in North Carolina are aware of the move in the energy industry from coal to natural gas (example 1, and others from photos with telling captions at example 2, example 3, example 4, etc.). Fracking has opened up a … Continue reading
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